1 At this point, you can pull both ends of the bow tie to make it as tight around your neck as you will be comfortable with.  Once you have the bow tie at the proper tightness, toss the longer end back over your respective shoulder. You wonât need it for the next step.
Empathy fatigue (also called Compassion Fatigue) is an epidemic in healthcare. You give and give until your own personal tank of energy and empathy is empty â¦. then what happens? Often it is behavior that is reactive, dismissive, demeaning to the very people we are called to serve and heal.
Empathy is the ability to feel some of what our spouse is feeling as they look at their world. It is not hard to imagine that if we cannot see things just a little from each otherâs perspective then we will not be able to know each other. Intimacy requires that we know each other more deeply with time. Both men and women struggle with this skill. One might think women are better at it, and perhaps they are. But most of the husbands I work with do not feel that their wives see their world through their eyes.